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Ags’ Wilson prefers to let deeds speak for him
By Tom Mulos
Reporter
He doesn’t get very excited at
Texas A&M football games, yet Matt
Wilson is considered to be one of the
best centers in the Southwest Con
ference.
“There’s no real reason to get up
set or excited,” Wilson said. “I’m not
a very excitable player. I can’t sit
there before a game and yell and
scream. I’ve got tojoke around.”
1984. The only game he sat out was
the Rice game last year because of a
knee injury received during the
Houston game. As it turned out, the
Aggies didn’t miss him because they
won easily, 45-10.
Wilson is a 6-5, 275-pound senior
agronomy major from Spring. He
was highly recruited out of high
school and decided to come to A&M
because of the traditions and the fact
that it is close to home. He is a mem
ber of Head Coach Jackie Sherrill’s
first recrifiting class which he thinks
is special.
His knee continued to trouble him
the rest of the season. He would
walk very slowly to class the week af
ter a game. Going up a flight of
stairs, he would, have to take them
one step at a time.
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“I thought I had played with pain
while I was in high school, but noth
ing compared to playing hurt last
year,” Wilson said.
“My knee is holding up a lot better
than last year. All I need is a little
rest between games and it’s OK for
another game,” Wilson said.
going to the Cotton Bowl two years
straight, the Aggies got off to a slow
start. But, after beating Baylor last
week 34-10, maybe the Aggies have
turned the corner.
Talking to him, one would not
think that he had a care in the world.
He doesn’t let his knee problems get
him down.
Matt Wilson
“They (the players) know he’s
going to stay in there and fight,”
Amedee said. “They respect him for
that. If we go into battle, as they al
ways say, you would want to make
sure he’s in the foxhole with you be
cause he simply takes care of his
business. He’s just that kind of per
son.”
Wilson said: “Everybody is out to
get you when you’re a winner. It
makes you a target for everyone and
that makes the job that much
tougher. I thought Baylor would
give us a better game than they did.
But then again, we played better
than we have in the past weeks.”
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Wilson has started 30 of the last
31 games for the Aggies starting
with the 37-12 win over Texas in
Offensive Coordinator Lynn
Amedee said: “Matt is a very durable
player. He plays hurt all the time. In
the Houston game last year, he went
down because of his knee. That
didn’t keep him out. He went right
back in there.”
At the end of the season, he un
derwent arthroscopic knee surgery.
During the spring and summer se
mesters, Wilson spent lots of time in
the weight room trying to get his
knee back in shape.
Take him off the football field
and he is a different kind of person.
He is not the aggressive football-
player type.
Wilson has taken the challenge of
playing in the Southwest Conference
and become one of the best linemen
in the conference. But his talents are
not just noticed around the confer
ence. He will be playing in the Se
nior Bowl and is going to accept the
opportunity to play in the Last-West
Shrine Game.
After winning two consecutive
conference championships and
Cards shell Twins to even Series at 2
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Tom Lawless’
three-run homer triggered a six-run
romp as the St. Louis Cardinals
caught fourth-inning fever and
burned the Minnesota Twins 7-2
Wednesday night, tying the World
Series at two games apiece.
Lawless’ first home run since 1984
and second of his major-league ca
reer helped chase Game 1 winner
Frank Viola, matching his quickest
exit in 40 starts this season.
The Cardinals, overpowered in
the first two games as Minnesota
scored a total of 13 runs in the
fourth inning, showed they can play
that way, too, combining four hits
and three walks in that inning for a
7-1 bulge.
St. Louis also raised more ques
tions about the Twins’ ability to win
on the road. Minnesota won just
nine games away from the Met-
rodome after the All-Star break be
fore taking two in Detroit in the
playoffs.
Jim Lindeman, joining Lawless as
one of the productive replacement
Cardinals, had two RBI singles
among St. Louis’ nine hits off four
Minnesota pitchers.
Ken Dayley protected the lead by
retiring Gary Gaetti and Tom Bru-
nansky with the bases loaded to end
the seventh. Dayley got a save in re
lief of Bob Forsch, who went 2% in
nings in relief and got his first World
Series victory in four decisions.
Game 5 will be Thursday night
with Bert Blyleven, the winner in the
second game, pitching for the
Twins. Either Danny Cox or Joe Ma-
grane, each of them losers so far in
the Series, will start for St. Louis.
Lawless, a little-used reserve
whom Cincinnati traded even-up to
Montreal for Pete Rose in 1984, got
the Cardinals even with the biggest
hit of his career.
Tony Pena drew a leadoff walk in
the fourth and Jose Oquendo fol-
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lowed with a single. That brought up
Lawless, who made just three starts
during the regular season but was
making his third start in the postsea
son because of an injury to third
baseman Terry Pendleton.
Lawless lofted an 0-1 pitch high
over the left-field fence, setting off a
fireworks display over Busch Sta
dium and in the crowd of 55,347.
Viola, seemingly bothered by the
42-degree temperature at the start
of the game, kept blowing on his
hand to keep .aim vhile the Cardi
nals kept hilts' g.
Coleman walked one out later and
Viola left. With Dan Schatzeder
pitching, Coleman stole his fourth
base of the Series and Tommy Herr
was intentionally walked with two
outs.
Lindeman, who singled home St.
Louis’ tying run in the third, hit an-
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other RBI single and Willie McGee
lined a two-run double.
Lawless went 2-for-25 during the
regular season and was hitless until
mid-August despite spending the
whole year with the Cardinals. He is
now 3-for-13 in the postseason. Lin
deman, a .208 hitter during the sea
son, is 8-for-20 in the postseason
while filling in mosdy for injured
Jack Clark.
Viola, who gave up one run on
five hits in eight innings of the
opener, simply did not have it while
pitching on three days’ rest for the
fifth time this year. Viola went to a
three-ball count only once in Game 1
but went there twice alone in the sec
ond inning.
Cardinals starter Greg Mathews,
pitching for the first time in 10 days
since pulling a muscle in his right leg
during the playoffs, also struggled as
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nesota Twins and St. Louis Cardi
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World Series. That’s not easv out
at the cold ball game.
Batters can’t hit. Fans can’t
cheer. Even Commissioner Peter
Ueberroth couldn’t handle a
grounder.
“Baseball was meant to be
played in warm weather,” Greg
Mathews, the Cardinals’ Game 4
starter, said. “No one likes to
pitch in the cold ’’
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games of the World Series are
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